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{{Short description|Indian physicist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar
|image =
|office= Chairman, [[Rajasthan Public Service Commission]]<ref name="chairmen">https://web.archive.org/web/20180904071015/https://rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in/chairmen</ref>
|term_start= 1 August 1960<ref name="chairmen" />
|term_end = 31 July 1966<ref name="chairmen"/>
|predecessor= L. L. Joshi<ref name="chairmen"/>
|successor = R. C. Choudhary<ref name="chairmen"/>
|caption =
|birth_date = 26 September 1908<ref name="Vaidya">{{cite journal|last=Vaidya|first=P. C.|title=Obituary — Narlikar, V.V. 1908-1991|journal=Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society|date=1992|volume=33|issue=1|pages=33–34|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1992QJRAS..33...33V|bibcode=1992QJRAS..33...33V}}</ref>
|birth_place = [[Kolhapur]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]]
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1991|4|1|1908|9|26|df = yes}}<ref name="Vaidya" />
|death_place =
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| 1namedata=[[Physics]], [[astronomy]]
| 2blankname = Institutions
|2namedata = [[Banaras Hindu University]]<br />[[University of Pune|University of Poona]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Mumbai|Bombay University]]<br />[[Cambridge University]]
| 3blankname= Religion
|3namedata = [[Hinduism]]
|doctoral_advisor =
|doctoral_students =
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'''Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar''' [[Royal Astronomical Society|FRAS]] (26 September 1908 – 1 April 1991) was an Indian physicist specializing in [[general relativity]]. The [[Jamia Millia Islamia|Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia]] has instituted the annual "''V. V. Narikar Memorial Lecture''" in memory of him.<ref name="Jamia">{{cite web|title=V.V. Narikar Memorial Lecture|url=http://www.ctp-jamia.res.in/events/vvnmlec.html|publisher=[[Jamia Millia Islamia]]}}</ref>

==Personal life==

Narlikar was born in [[Kolhapur]], India on 26 September 1908. His father Vasudevshastri Narlikar was a [[pandit]] in [[Sanskrit]] and delivered [[pravachan]]s. Vishnu was the youngest among three brothers. He studied at the [[Vidyapeeth Highschool Kolhapur|Vidyapeeth High School]] and [[Rajaram College]] in Kolhapur.<ref name="narlikar2012p5">{{cite book |last=Narlikar |first= Jayant Vishnu |year=2012 |page=5 |title=Chaar Nagaraantale Maajhe Vishwa(चार नगरांतले माझे विश्व) |publisher=Mouj Prakashan Gruha, Khatau Wadi, Girgaon, Mumbai}}</ref> Vishnu continued with his education despite his father's demise and secured the fourth rank in the [[Matriculation]] exam. He won scholarships and studied at the [[Elphinstone College]] and [[The Institute of Science, Mumbai|Royal Institute of Science]] in [[Mumbai]]. He stood first in the [[Bachelor of Science|B.Sc.]] exam.<ref name="narlikar2012p5"/> Upon receiving his [[Bachelor of Science|B.Sc.]] degree from the [[University of Mumbai]] in 1928, Narlikar continued studies at the [[Cambridge University]] in England, where he passed the [[Mathematics Tripos]] in 1930.<ref name="Vaidya" />

His studies at [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]] were sponsored by the J. N. Tata Endowment Scholarship. He also received a loan from the [[Kolhapur State]], with a condition that he would be employed with the Kolhapur State upon his return to India.<ref name="narlikar2012p6">{{cite book |last=Narlikar |first= Jayant Vishnu |year=2012 |page=6 |title=Chaar Nagaraantale Maajhe Vishwa(चार नगरांतले माझे विश्व) |publisher=Mouj Prakashan Gruha, Khatau Wadi, Girgaon, Mumbai}}</ref> Vishnu Narlikar became a [[Wrangler (University of Cambridge)|Star Wrangler]] after completing the Mathematical Tripos at [[Cambridge University]]. He was also a recipient of the Isaac Newton Studentship and the Rayleigh Prize.<ref name="narlikar2012p6"/>

In 1932, Narlikar married Shridevi Navare of [[Mumbai]], but she died due to illness within few years. He then married Krishna ({{nee|Sumati}}) Huzurbazar, sister of [[V. S. Huzurbazar]],<ref name="narlikar2012p7">{{cite book |last=Narlikar |first= Jayant Vishnu |year=2012 |page=7 |title=Chaar Nagaraantale Maajhe Vishwa(चार नगरांतले माझे विश्व) |publisher=Mouj Prakashan Gruha, Khatau Wadi, Girgaon, Mumbai}}</ref> in 1937.<ref name="narlikar2012p29">{{cite book |last=Narlikar |first= Jayant Vishnu |year=2012 |page=29 |title=Chaar Nagaraantale Maajhe Vishwa(चार नगरांतले माझे विश्व) |publisher=Mouj Prakashan Gruha, Khatau Wadi, Girgaon, Mumbai}}</ref>

Vishnu and Sumati had two sons, the astrophysicist [[Jayant Vishnu Narlikar|Jayant]] and scientist Anant.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.narlikar.com/anant_narlikar.html|title=Professor Anant V. Narlikar|website=www.narlikar.com|access-date=19 July 2019}}</ref>

==Career==
He returned to India in 1932 as professor of Mathematics and Head of the Department of Mathematics at the [[Banaras Hindu University]] in Varanasi at the age of 24. [[Madan Mohan Malaviya]], the founder of the [[Banaras Hindu University]], repaid the debt which Narlikar owed to the Kolhapur State, thereby making it possible for Narlikar to work at the university.<ref name="narlikar2012p6"/> He became a professor of mathematics at the [[University of Pune|University of Poona]] in 1966 and retired in 1973{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}. From 1960 to 1966 he served as the chairman of the [[Rajasthan Public Service Commission]].<ref name="Vaidya" /> He was elected a fellow of the [[Royal Astronomical Society]] in 1931.<ref name="Vaidya" /> He served as the president of the [[Indian Mathematical Society]] from 1981 to 1982.<ref name="Jamia" />

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